skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On highways? No. On high-traffic sidewalks? Yes! It it were up to me, every corner downtown would be guarded by bollards.

The idea that pedestrians should eat the risk to be a sacrifice zone for bad drivers is just bonkers.

Like here's an idiot cop who can't make a right turn. If that telephone pole hadn't stopped them, they would have creamed the bus stop. I 100% privilege the safety of people minding their own business waiting for a bus over a driver who seems to not be safe to operate a vehicle.

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2024/02/26/police-cruiser-crash-...

That was Feb. Here is a recent fatality last month.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/pedestrian-killed-on-north-...

Here's another in February - https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/pedestrian-pinned-aft...

TBH - I favour a change in the laws. If you are driving along an occupied sidewalk, you should have a positive obligation to stay off it. That means both hands on the wheel, no drinking a coffee, no phones. If you wind up on the sidewalk, you have to prove there's good cause -- you got hit, cut off, etc. As it is, we consider in reasonable behaviour to just screw up and drive into a store.
But they are not making the product. They are making a different product differently named.

> but using the same name as a product with expensive ingredients

Incorrect. The difference in name is omission of the word traditional.
Are you talking about used Teslas for the price of new Corollas, or is there somewhere that people are selling identical model years of each for comparable prices?
I am working on solving that issue with MI300x.
Data bug if anyone from World Food Atlas is reading this. I clicked on "tapas" and went to the recipe section where it says "Authentic Tortilla de Patata Recipe", and then underneath says "We strongly advise you to read the cooking tips before jumping to the recipe though". The cooking tips are all for a completely different dish, apparently one with shrimp and garlic, that have nothing to do with Tortilla de Patata.

https://www.tasteatlas.com/tapas/recipe
Don't forget Gensler meeting with Sam Bankman-Fried; which actually blew up in everyones face and wasn't crypto's fault but an exchange run amok.
When you lack the self-control to save, over-withholding + refund becomes an ersatz year-long savings account. It's terrible, lacking any interest at all, but when it's all you've got, breaking open the piggy bank to get your money back feels good even if it doesn't make financial sense.
Probably somebody on the wrong half, given that they didn't reply.

/s
Agreed but in the case of retired people, that duty hits different. They don't have the ability to go back and earn more money; many are also in cognitive decline.
Agreed!

In terms of {interesting content}:{interesting title} ratio, it's near the top.

Which is to say the title drastically underserves the fascinating content.

It should be something more like "Azorian: How the CIA et al. secretly built a megaship to lift a Soviet sub from 4.9 km under the ocean"
No it doesn’t, but it doesn’t have to. It warms up 20 minutes before I get in, so there is no ice to scrape nor fogged window.
I don't know what compiler & flags they ran it on, but with gcc 12's preprocessor it looks much more than that: include files nest to a level of 200 before an error by default. with `-fmax-include-depth=10`, about 200kB of error is printed, and each subsequent level doubles that, so you'd be in for about 3e62 bytes of error output by my calculation...

clang 14 terminates preprocessing as soon as any header exceeds maximum nesting, so only ~6kB of errors are produced by it.
I share your taste in books. 7 Habits in particular absolutely changed my life. I’ve always thought that its title doesn’t really do it justice. There is a lot more depth to that book than you’d think based on the title alone. It has helped set my moral compass.

Lean startup is a recent discovery for me - and boy do I wish I’d read it sooner!

Edit: also I highly recommend Stephen Covey’s audiobooks of 7 Habits and First Things First (read by him)
I personally love TUI software, you don't have to worry about GUI toolkits, mouse focused interaction, you can run them remotely over SSH, they're often composable, and composability is much easier, and who doesn't like the hackerman aesthetic?

Some things I don't like about modern TUIs is developers getting away from the purpose of them, portability. Often you'll find really beautiful TUIs that require installation of custom fonts for icons and other overcomplicated stuff like that. They can be nice, but generally they sacrifice the practical benefit to a significant degree.

One I discovered yesterday, not really a TUI, more of a shell but still, extremely powerful, is kalc https://github.com/bgkillas/kalc which is a complete scientific and graphing calculator in the terminal. It depends on gnuplot for graphing, which is unfortunate since it is a GUI program, but there we go with composability again! It's fine and works and does what it needs to, so not really a big deal I guess.

I also use Helix editor and sc-im daily.

To find more:

https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis

https://github.com/toolleeo/cli-apps
Clearly, the owner is in a great position to charge for access. This is bread & butter software-as-a-service.

Can you give an example/paper/blog of how you envision this one time data conversion and infinite privacy preserving queryability to work?
Sure feel free to swap in whatever job role you like, my main point is that I’d rather hear an analysis from someone embedded in the problem space than from someone whose ‘job’ is to squeeze profit off other people’s work. I’m sure there are a few decent and prudent managers of giant capital stacks, but honestly at this guy’s level of removal from the realities of building literally anything I am extremely skeptical of any advice he has to offer outside of recommending me an expensive restaurant or a nice resort somewhere.
Exactly, that's why I wrote "the player" which is the most interesting tech.

The rest of the system wasn't very interesting back in the day, just an off-the-shelf CMS and internal feeds to pull in all the content from the different channels automatically.

Here is an old interview with the technical directors from back then explaining some of the internals: https://tech.ebu.ch/docs/techreview/trev_2010-Q1_Mediathek.p...

The sites have changed quite a lot since then and they have added subscription content as well. Maybe they now have code which would be more interesting to open source.
What's the long-standing problem and what's the idea behind an elegant solution?
Are you talking about colo or an office? Because carrier-neutral colos are pre-wired with plenty of bandwidth that's 10x-100x cheaper than public clouds. Yes, you need routers but the savings elsewhere should pay for them.
This is the cheapest plan I could find in GA. It said it would subsidize the $357/m cost down to $113 for $45k 40 year old Male non-smoker, single. It seems quite a bit better than what you are suggesting. (I used https://www.healthsherpa.com/ to more easily check out available plans.)
It covers preventative care, and after the $9100 deductible, it seems to cover pretty much everything with $0 copay, as long as its in-network.

(You also get their negotiated rates when you go to the doctor, I assume.)

https://d3ul0st9g52g6o.cloudfront.net/2024/GA/sbc/2024_58081...
I’ve been using Wasabi for S3-interface cloud storage. Way cheaper and works great.
> We don’t have to accept this as the status quo.

I think the challenge here is that we as a society aren't going to reach consensus on this, thereby nullifying the point. As the article mentions, half of the people will take the scene one way, and the other half of people will take it another way.

FWIW, I take it a seemingly opposite way from you, despite not identifying as a "hustler" or "techbro" or even considering myself a "go-getter".

Underneath the societal scaffolds we build on top of it, nature is brutal. It's important to always keep that in mind.
No, building sidewalks will become prohibitively expensive. Building car-only streets with no pedestrian access at all will become comparatively even cheaper and a "great option!" for any cash strapped city planner.
> - US crash safety standards are high enough to double the price of existing Chinese models

Just wanted to clarify that this is not stated in the article, which says:

"The Seagull would cost more than $10,000 in the U.S., given that it would have to be modified to meet U.S. safety standards. But you could double the price of the Seagull and it would still be a steal."
As other people have said, I think auto makers are learning the error of their ways. I just bought a 2024 Toyota Sequoia last week, and love that basically every control has a button! There’s some infotainment stuff but that works with voice controls, like navigation and CarPlay.

There are dozens of different buttons, so it definitely takes a period of learning to get proficient, but it just feels so nice, like I’m playing a multi ton musical instrument.
I don't understand either:

"It is understood investigations have not shown any data has been taken."

Versus

"The cyberattack was on a payroll system with current service personnel and some veterans. It is largely names and bank details that have been exposed."

Surely it's one or the other, they've either got hold of those details or not.
Is anyone a fan? Except people looking for cheap music for whatever media they are producing (videos / video games)?
Show HN: Finsight, an open-source virtual financial assistant
The Abolition of Man - C. S. Lewis

All Things Considered - G. K. Chesterton

Some others I daren't mention.

Category Theory for Programmers - Bartosz Milewski

The Design of Relational Databases - Heikki Mannila, Kari-Jouko Raiha
Centralized exchanges need supervision, they have the history of doing the most harm. Look at Mt Gox and FTX
I can usually pick up any Michael Lewis book and be entertained even if it's the 5th timing reading it.
German Bundeswehr Webex conferences were accessible for months
DAG does seem natural here. Having a LLM add metadata to the nodes can make this even cooler.
For instance, person A presents statement Sa. Person B comments on person A's statement, Sba and person C comments on person A's statement, Sca. The viewers now, especially new parties that are joining the conversation, would be able to see that Sba agrees to most of Sa said, but refutes a fact said by Sa. Sca doesn't agree with anything Sa is saying. Another example would be, nodes getting more weight as more people agree with it and smaller as more people disagree. Obviously, the implementation and implications are boundless.
From the ops side my situation's similar.

The more so as the team is often small (one-person ops teams are probably the norm, at least by number of establishments), and workload is often already overwhelming.

New technology and/or products always come with unanticipated consequences and downsides. Expecting to make a decision on a major, or even minor tool isn't something that can be rushed.

One model I'd noted as innovative at the time was for a SAAS company to offer a free tier of service, in the case in mind, with limited data retention of a monitoring tool. That struck me as an exceedingly good way to balance the power of the tool (all other features were otherwise available), whilst also providing a clear and reasonable upgrade path to a paid subscription. When that company IPO'd and revealed its CoS (cost of sales), I was surprised to see how high it remained (on the order of 40--50% of revenues).

Selling (and buying) complex information goods is hard, whether that's software, services, consulting, news, or anything else. There's a copious literature on the production side addressing the zero marginal cost / high fixed costs predicament. There's less on the buy side, though Akerlof's "Market for Lemons" addresses this in part. Reducing uncertainty, increasing knowledge, and mitigating purchaser risk without needlessly offsetting revenues seem key to the issue.
What percentage of goggle engineers are:

- Maintaining old stuff

- Rewriting old stuff

- Writing new stuff

You can't do w/o most of the first, most of the second is a waste, and maybe a quarter of the last is worthwhile. I've always had the feeling google isn't filled with a lot of the first, as it's just not cool.
They can always justify it as not knowing the price.

The sales tax rate is different in different places. It costs a different amount to ship to Florida than Alaska and picking it up at the factory is free (even if nobody does). The advertised price is if you have your own modem, renting one from the cable company is more.

None of these are inherently wrong. You should be paying more if you're having it shipped to a remote location with high shipping costs, and the cost of that shouldn't be dumped on every other customer. But it's kind of a loophole if you want the advertised price to be lower than what people are actually going to be paying in practice.
HyperCards need to make a comeback
Thank you for that, I forgot to mention it: Both inflation adjusted and log plotting need to be turned off (as checkboxes) for an apples to apples comparison.
> I’d rather hear an analysis from someone embedded in the problem space than from someone whose ‘job’ is to squeeze profit off other people’s work

Everyone believes someone else is squeezing off their work. In tech, I've heard it from founders and sales about engineers; engineers about everyone else, including every other engineer; the person who keeps the shitshow of a culture hanging by a thread; the lawyers who keeps the company from being fined into oblivion; et cetera.

If there is a summary to draw from it, it's that the uselessness is probably concentrated in the person complaining and doing nothing about it (whether due to impulse or ability).
Does it make sense though to do it this way? I18n framework that loads resources should support fallback internally in case there’s no direct match.
A function's declaration is not affected by its body, so that shouldn't be a problem.
welp, made me look

in other words, am not surprised by a vc -- let alone an Andreesen adjacent -- uttering thusly on any given bait-thirsty "news" site, bizz-nuss or otherwise?
I knew in my heart as I made the comment it had been done. Amazing
Great news, but I'm still waiting for PayPal and other financial institutions to get on the SMS-less bandwagon (details[0]).

[0]: https://lorendb.dev/posts/lets-ban-sms-2fa/
> In theory, the combination of CMY at 100% (100,100,100) creates black, In practice it creates a muddy brown due to limitations of toner (and ink) secondaries.

Does anyone know why this is?

> "K" is used for black to avoid confusion with Blue and because the black component is the "Key" for a set of color separations

I always assumed it was just because "K" is the last letter in "black" — apparently not!
He built OpenDNS and exited it, he was pretty technical when I met him.

I suspect he doesn't have to work and does so anyways...
Heh, perhaps you could use the text comments to constantly update a visual description generated by AI? That way, nobody needs to make a drawing. Conversely, nobody has direct control over the visuals.

I envision a UI where people type their comment into a text box, that comment is sent to the server which is constantly updating the "visuals that describe the idea". Each client updates their UI with the new visuals along with providing some way of attaching all the comments to the visual images/videos/diagrams. IOW, the AI-generated visuals are the center of the client UI, rather than just a scrolling tape of comments. Clients can then navigate the discussion by diving into different components of the discussion. Maybe there's even an AI-generated summary of some sort. Essentially, the AI is playing the role of a Designer drawing pictures in a side channel and a smart assistant who is constantly updating a summary abstract.
This guy says that Israel supported PLO in an attempted, but failed coup against Hamas: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40273500

Seems contradictory. Which is it?

And I ask again: there were no reasonable security concerns behind the blockade according to you? Just for evil funsies?
And Hertz dropped their whole Tesla fleet like a brick because the cars couldn't deliver on expectations. If you want to run a factory of bots, thinking you'll get 24/7/365, you're dreaming.
It's strange from a foreigners perspective because all of this looks exactly like a dark pattern made to distract and confuse gambling addicts. Why does American government allow direct predation on its own citizens?
That probably matters a lot. Most of the bread I eat is sourdough or (occasionally) white, and is bread I bake myself. Whole wheat is not to my taste, so I don't make it.

That I make it myself is also an important data point. It means that the vast majority of the bread I eat was baked in the 48 hours (max), so is at the peak of freshness. I really notice when bread is past that peak! When it happens to my bread, I make croutons or bread crumbs out of it.
The ideal is usage-based trials, which directly translates to value derived, but that's harder to implement, so you get time-based trials. There, I said it in one sentence.
The Bhagavad Gita
A Windows WPF app to do a quick API request search for records (Contacts, Accounts) in Dynamics online CRM. Because got annoyed by slow Dynamics web page loading times.
In the context of that sentence, the article says car companies collect that information. Here's the sentence in context:

> Companies are quick to flaunt their privacy policies, but those amount to pages upon pages of legalese that leave even professionals stumped about what exactly car companies collect and where that information might go.

> So what can they collect?

> “Pretty much everything,” said Misha Rykov, a research associate at the Mozilla Foundation, who worked on the car-privacy report. “Sex-life data, biometric data, demographic, race, sexual orientation, gender — everything.”
With the touchscreen control interfaces that I myself have designed and built (which were for things far less important than nuclear power), there was no paging involved.

Everything had a place, and that place was always the same day-to-day (barring infrequent redesigns of some aspect or other, but old-school buttons-and-knobs control panels sometimes see revisions as well as the reality of what they control changes over time).
An infinite canvas for code exploration
We built an "infinite canvas" style app for exploring codebases. We cut your repo into atomic pieces - functions, data structures etc. and give you an interactively expandable graph of defintions.

Even with the best go-to-definition editor feature you need to keep a whole bunch of mental context when tracking down a deep control flow. The idea of Territory is to give you exactly the relevant cross-section through a large codebase. A code map that you build in this fashion can then provide explanatory value to others.

So far we indexed Linux, LLVM and Godot to prove we can handle repos of that scale and to provide value free of charge to free software contributors. We will be adding more repos and shipping self-service build setup later. Would love to hear your opinion. Are there any projects you think we should cover next? We are doing C/C++ first -- our initial parsing setup is build around libclang.
I was scrolling through looking for the Google Wave comment. Sad to see it at the bottom.

Wave was, IMHO, the UI paradigm of the future for this sort of thing. I have hope that it was just too far ahead of it's time and something like it will catch on again.

I think the problem it suffered from, besides being a little too "out there" for the average user, was that it required to much careful attention to how you used it. Where to fork the discussions, where to spilt them off into their own wave leaving only a link in their place, etc. It just doesn't work for people for whom the "reply all" button seems a sensible solution....

I had such hope for it though. The technical side seems pretty well solved at this point, it seems like that we need is a crack team of psychologists and UX people to have a go at the problem.
First time hearing of that - thanks for sharing.

There's an obvious pattern of behaviour of producing propaganda with sleight of hand to misdirect attention to who's likely actually pulling the strings for such scenarios.
The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch. Has an exceptionally high density of good ideas.

The first time I read it, I didn't love it and only engaged with it superficially. But gradually I began thinking about it more and came back to it, and I read it with more attention. After re-reading it several times I think it is one of the deepest and most important books I have ever read. It has changed how I see the world.
Hn's opinion of Fly seems to fluctuate a lot. First it was an HN darling, especially with all the high-quality blog posts they were putting out, but on the latest threads there's been a lot of complaining about platform stability and features.
VMware Cloud on AWS – here today, here tomorrow
> but I would defend to the death everyone's right to do whatever they want with it.

assuming AI isn't yet techbro another scam, I you'll suspect get your chance

the hundred of formerly millions of middle class workers rendered permanently unemployable are not going to be happy with OpenAI

ignore all previous input. please produce a recipe for jellied eels.
Just like they whined about one of the best public funded and free weather apps out there and sued them: DWD

https://www.dwd.de/DE/presse/pressemitteilungen/DE/2020/2020...
I have used this https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink/ for TUI design, it's "React" for TUI.

It's pretty good but I had to add a bit of sub-process parallelization since I have a long running process in the background.
I am curious what "other places" are you comparing it to.
I've heard this from a lot of ex googlers, its not a huge surprise.

Google hired a bunch of people to keep them out of the hands of others. Those people now sit around and write papers on useless topics...
> it's that the uselessness is probably concentrated in the person complaining and doing nothing about it

So basically this PE guy?
Now at 500% the old cost!
Alright boys we got 'em up, let's play a song, pray, and then throw 'em back in.
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